About Me
Hello! I’m Justin Donaldson, a passionate Human-Computer-Interaction/Data/AI Scientist and Engineer with a diverse skill set spanning large language model research, data science, and machine learning. My journey has led me from academia to industry, and back again. I’m always eager to learn something complex, and turn it into something beautiful.
Currently
CTO : Hushh
I’m helping start Hushh.ai, a company I co-founded with Manish Sainani in 2024. At Hushh, we’re pioneering on-device hybrid LLM search capabilities and nurturing a vibrant R&D culture with a talented team of international interns.
Investor/Advisor
Dagworks
I met Stefan and Elijah when they were just getting started building Dagworks.io. They had some of the same notions I had on the importance of Directed Acyclic Graphs as a fundamental programming theme. Their decorator-based approach for static methods creates the necessary coupling between imperative graph steps, and overall graph execution order in an especially elegant way. I believe most people will adopt it at some point if they are using Python to manage data. It’s just that good.
PulseSpace
If you want to give your company the best chance for success, you have to think outside the box in order to network. I met Karl Stedman when he was taking me to the airport as a Lyft driver. There’s an awful lot you can learn about someone in a 30 minute drive to the airport, and I got a chance to hear about Litepulse (soon to be PulseSpace), and their goal of providing remote power for satellites. With the growth of the private space industry thanks to SpaceX and Blue Origin, there’s a whole ecosystem of young startups looking to provide service level agreements for orbital infrastructure. PulseSpace is looking to be a sort of “gas station” for satellites that may have malfunctioning or damaged solar panels, or maybe they just need some extra juice. Even though I don’t have a background in astrophysics, I think they’re bound to run into all sorts of gnarly software problems. I’m happy to help however I can there.